YOU WERE PROBABLY HEARING THE WARNINGS, DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING UPSTAIRS? >> YEAH, I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH MY COUSIN AND HE WAS TELLING ME EXACTLY WHERE WAS AND WE KNEW IT WAS COMING. WE WERE IN THE BASEMENT. YOU KNOW T SOUNDS. IT IS A RUMBLE. IT WAS COMING. YOU COULD FEEL THE AIR PRESSURE CHANGE AND KNOW WHAT WAS COMING. I KNOW, IT WAS OVER US -- NEXT THING I KNOW, IT WAS OVER US, AND MY BEDROOM WAS GONE. WE WERE UNDERNEATH THE ONE PART OF THE HOUSE THEY DID NOT GET TAKEN. THANK GOD WE WERE IN THE ONE SPOT THAT DID NOT GET HIT. >> YOU LISTENED TO THE WARNINGS. YET, WE KNEW IT WAS COMING BUT I WAS HOPING IT WASN’T COMING RIGHT AT ME, AND IT DID. >> YOU MUST BE FEELING SOMEWHAT LUCKY RIGHT NOW DESPITE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT. >> I FEEL LUCKY I AM ALIVE. HOW MUCH LUCKIER CAN YOU BE? >> WHO WAS IN THE HOUSE WITH YOU? >> MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER AND DOG WE WERE ALL HUDDLED UP TOGETHER WITH THE MATTRESS OVER OUR HEADS IN THE BASEMENT. >> AND WHAT HAVE YOU LOST HERE? WE CAN TELL WHAT WAS HERE. WAS THEIR LIVESTOCK? >> YES, WE HAVE LIVESTOCK AND I’M SURE THEY ARE BURIED UNDERNEATH THIS STUFF, I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT OVER THERE. I’VE BEEN GROUNDED AROUND FOR A CHAINSAW. >> LIKE I SAID, IS A MUST HARD FOR US TO IMAGINE WHAT WAS HERE JUST TWO HOURS AGO. >> MY HOUSE, WHERE YOU SEE THAT RIGHT THERE WERE MY TRUCK IS, THAT WAS A BARN. IF YOU GO UP TO THE TOP OF THE HILL, THERE WERE TWO SILOS AND A DAIRY BA

Folks across the Midwest awoke to destruction Wednesday, with some losing everything they had.Brian Hahn, of Linwood, Kansas, spoke with sister station KMBC-TV about the terrifying moment a tornado made its way through his property. He says he was huddled in his basement with his wife, teenage daughter and dog when the tornado came through. Hahn said his home, silos and livestock were all lost in the destruction. See his emotional interview in the video player above.

LINWOOD, Kan. —

Folks across the Midwest awoke to destruction Wednesday, with some losing everything they had.

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Brian Hahn, of Linwood, Kansas, spoke with sister station KMBC-TV about the terrifying moment a tornado made its way through his property.

He says he was huddled in his basement with his wife, teenage daughter and dog when the tornado came through. Hahn said his home, silos and livestock were all lost in the destruction.